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BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF CRITICAL STUDIES
Fantasy stories

These titles examine the genres of Fantasy and imaginative fiction from a range of perspectives, including historical, psychological and modern representations such as science fiction and "swords'n'sorcery".

The call number is to the text held in the Heyward Library.

Frank Barrett, Where was Wonderland? : a traveller's guide to the settings of classic children's books, London : Hamlyn, c1997
hmc 809.9332 BARR
 

Patrick Curry, Defending Middle-Earth : Tolkien : myth & modernity, London : HarperCollins, 1998
hmc 823.912 TOLK/C
 

John Goldthwaite, The natural history of make-believe : a guide to the principal works of Britain, Europe, and America, New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
hmc 028.5 GOLD 

Suman Gupta, Re-reading Harry Potter, Houndsmill, UK, New York ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
hmc 821.914 ROWL/G

Robert Holden, A golden age, vol.1 - Visions of fantasy, vol. 2 -  Through the magic door, Pymble, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1992
hmc 398.210994 HOLD 

Peter Hunt and Millicent Lenz, Alternative worlds in fantasy fiction, London, New YYork : Continuum, 2001
hmc 823.0876 HUNT

U. C. Knoepflmacher, Ventures into childland : Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998
hmc 820.99282 KNOE 

Richard Mathews, Fantasy : the liberation of imagination, New York : Routledge, 2002
hmc 809.915 MATH
  

Suzanne Rahn, L. Frank Baum's World of Oz : a classic series at 100, Lanham, MD. : Scarecrow Press, 2003
hmc 813.4 BAUM

Ronald Reichertz, The making of the Alice books : Lewis Carroll's uses of earlier children's literature, Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997
hmc 823.8 CARR/R
 

Michael O'Neal Riley, Oz and beyond : the fantasy world of L. Frank Baum, Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c1997.
hmc 813.4 BAUM/R
 

Peter Schakel, Imagination and the arts in C.S. Lewis : journeying to Narnia and other lands, COlumbia : University of Missouri Press, 2002
hmc 823.912 LEWI/S

Brian Sibley, The land of Narnia : Brian Sibley explores the world of C.S. Lewis, New York, NY : Harper & Row, 1990
hmc 823.912 LEWI/S 

Karen Patricia Smith, The fabulous realm : a literary-historical approach to British fantasy, 1780-1990, Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1993
hmc 820.915 SMIT
 

Jackie Wullschläger, Inventing wonderland : the lives and fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne, London : Methuen London, 1995
hmc 823.009 WULL

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